gumball

noun

gum·ball ˈgəm-ˌbȯl

plural gumballs

: a ball of chewing gum in a candied shell

Ah, the gumball machine. That tempting, rainbow-hued orb of treats that lurks outside every supermarket, dry cleaner and amusement park in America. Just a quarter gets you a sweet treat to bubble and stretch as you please, but how long has that gumball been sitting there?—

Melissa Kravitz

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It is finished in a rather fetching metallic blue and white paint and features a white no. 1 racing gumball on the hood and fenders. —

Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2025 Pogo sticks and gumballs and flares and fireworks and scooters and double-decker buses and cemeteries and country roads become putty in the director’s hands. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024 Many others — painters of Pontiacs, drugstore facades or gumball machines — were dismissed as frivolous. —

Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024 Absent any activity, his shop stands frozen in time: a commendation from the city and a photograph of his father on the wall, racks of shoe polish, laces and an empty gumball machine. —

Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gumball